Hi, Currently I am writing a piece on the why and how of setting up SSH2 for public key authentication. For now it is in Dutch, but an English version will follow later on. In this document I want to show a couple of examples of starting ssh-agent from ~/.xsession, ~/.profile or ~/.login.
This is what I have so far, but I feel this is rather poor. I'd like to ask the readers of this list for comments on how to make these examples better. All help would be seriously appreciated. Example for inclusion in ~/.profile: #If there is an active ssh-agent kill it first (to remove stale onces) if [ "$SSH_AGENT_PID" != "" ]; then ssh-add -D eval `ssh-agent -k` fi eval `ssh-agent` ssh-add Example for inclusion in ~/.login: #If there is an active ssh-agent kill it first (to remove stale onces) if ( "$SSH_AGENT_PID" != "" ) then ssh-add -D eval `ssh-agent -k` endif eval `ssh-agent` ssh-add Example for inclusion in ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc: #Put this on a line where it is executed just before starting a #Window Manager exec ssh-agent sh -c 'ssh-add </dev/null' I know about /etc/X11/Xsession.options and use-ssh-agent, but most of the people that will be reading this are using Solaris, HP-UX and all kinds of GNU/Linux distributions, so this must be as portable as possible. Of course the above is for OpenSSH, but the same examples are given further in the text adapted for use with SSH.com. Thanks in advance for all comments. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
